Stable genius

That's a nice picture of the early morning deer, Mr. Beagles.  Do the same deer show up on a regular basis, like they are taking a shortcut across your property on the way to someplace else?  I don't have a clue about deer habits and behavior and I was wondering if they sleep in the same place every night or keep wandering about, always on the move.  I may have asked this before but are feral swine a problem in your neck of the woods?  I think they're a big problem in the southern part of Michigan, but I may be wrong.  There was something I read about some captive Russian pigs that escaped and caused major issues with the local farmers once they started reproducing.  The pigs, not the farmers.

-----

No need for me to borrow the Frontier book, Uncle Ken.  My HTML copy is working out better than I expected and I can cut & paste any memorable passages for future reference.  I haven't, yet, but maybe I will.  Thanks for the offer.

-----

I have to admit that most of the sick days I've taken were for times I wasn't really sick, unless you count being sick of going to work every day.  But this was only a few times a year; no sense in pushing it and never do it on a Friday.  Those long weekends look suspicious.  If we could have gotten paid for unused sick days I don't think anyone would have missed a day of work unless they were at death's door.  Nowadays folks are told to stay home if they have the slightest symptom of a cold or flu, or so I've read.  Used to be that everybody on the bus or train was hacking and wheezing like it was a tubercular ward but not anymore.  I think we developed better immune systems back in the day.

-----

I think democratic socialism is just a label, like progressive,and not like a party ripe for bolting the dems.

You're right, they're not a party.  They are an organization, and very real.  I wish there was a better term than socialist, though.  We've been conditioned to think of socialism as the first step on the way to communism, which is a false assumption.  If a third party would ever develop I hope that it would be called the Middle-Grounders, or something like that.  The Savvy Centrists?

-----

It was kind of funny to read that Melania was watching CNN on Air Force One, and you-know-who had a fit.  What a chump.  And Melania refuses to watch Fox News, which has got to hurt.  What will the neighbors say when he can't keep his old lady in line?

For more humor, I found a video by a guy who is ready for his fifteen minutes of fame. 
If you like Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance you may be amused.  I thought it was pretty funny, with great wordplay.  A very stable genius, indeed.

There's a certain kind of bitchy humor that only the gay guys can pull off.  And it's amazing the kind of video you can create in your living room if you know what you're doing